Men live longer if they marry this type of woman

The result of a 1997 poll from The Journal of Personality showed the top three desirable traits are reliability, warmth and fairness. Guys, those are all fantastic, important traits, but we might want to re-jig that priority list a little bit in light of some new information. It turns out that if you want to live a long life, you should marry a woman who possesses intelligence.

That conclusion was reached by experts at the University of Aberdeen who found that men with intelligent wives were far less likely to suffer from degenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. Many of the men studied even had signs of brain damage that were visible through MRI scans. However, the ones who married highly intelligent women didn’t display symptoms.

“If you look at the kind of people who should have dementia but don’t show symptoms, they are highly intelligent people in high-powered jobs. They also have a lot of money in the bank.”, Professor Lawrence Whalley, professor of mental health at the University of Aberdeen, said.How does this work? Previous research has demonstrated that intellectual stimulation prevents dementia. In such research, intellectual stimulation was observed through ‘cognitive activities’ such as crossword puzzles, reading, and museum visits.

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However, this recent Aberdeen study makes an excellent point: what could be more intellectually stimulating than one’s partner? Women prioritize spending time with their relationship far more than men do. Women place a higher emphasis on discussion than men. And now for the truly astounding revelation. Additional research has found that during a successful conversation between two people, their brains practically sync up. It is a process known as ‘neural connection’ that serves as the foundation for engaged discourse.

The listener brain begins to fire in the same way as the speaker’s brain, but it does so first. In other words, the person listening starts to anticipate what will come next. The better the connection formed during this process, the more the two conversationalists understand each other and their feeling of comprehension grows. How is that for intellectual stimulation? Have you discovered an intelligent wife?

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